Beatriz Albuquerque was born in 1978 in Portugal. She finished her Bachelor of Arts at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto in 2003 and her Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. In 2004 she joined the Independent Performance Group founded by Marina Abramovic and in 2005 she won the Distinction Prize from the Ambient Series in the PAC/edge Performance Festival in Chicago.